Oh my...

Here's a sordid little tale that's worthy of preservation. I came across it through a post on another forum...

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Pictures automatically attach to e-mail?

Susan042764
Posts: 2
Registered: Nov 11, 2008

Please help! I took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account). When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted that he took the picture but says that he never sent it to anyone. He claims that he went to the Genius Bar at the local Apple store and they told him that it is an i-phone glitch: that photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? The future of my marriage depends on this answer!

Tamara
Posts: 8,106
Registered: Nov 26, 2002

Images don't automatically attach to emails.
I hope you and your husband can work things out though.

Allan Sampson
Posts: 31,752
Registered: May 12, 2003

I have never heard of such a glitch.
An email will not be in an account's Sent mailbox unless the message was successfully sent, and an email with a photo attached cannot be created by itself and sent without user interaction.

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Blah blah blah - a bunch of posts that mostly say that the glitch doesn't exist. And then this:

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erikislame
Posts: 5
Registered: Jul 3, 2007

Susan, it's most DEFINITELY a glitch. I've had it happen several times on my phone, as have my coworkers who use iPhones.
The reason the answers here have been so skeptical is just how rare photo use is with the iPhone, as well as the apps installed on the phone that would cause this. It has to be under very UNUSUAL circumstances that it can happen--yet it can and does frequently.
Please ignore any of the "troll" answers you're getting causing you grief. (You can find a definition of troll at www.urbandictionary.com )
Hopefully, this bug will be resolved in the next firmware update.

Judgement
Posts: 1
Registered: Nov 14, 2008

This has definitely happened to me a couple times too. At first I thought it was just accidental with the phone being in my pocket and just jumping around, but since the first two times I have made sure I have locked it.
I don't really know how to fix it but its starting to worry me. My phone has already sent pictures to the girl I like, my grandmother as well as a buddy of mine. Thankfully none of them have been too ranchy.

lythic
Posts: 1
Registered: Nov 14, 2008

... and erikislame and Judgement are both your husband! Note that Judgement is a new user who registered just to respond to you.
The iPhone does not have this bug. Ditch the creep.

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And from there on, it's all about 'ditching the creep'! The best post is this one:

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dedhero0
Posts: 1
Registered: Nov 14, 2008

I think your marriage has a glitch.

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While the events themselves are quite sad, I did enjoy hubby's lame attempt to convince his wife otherwise.

Is Bryan Singer Going to Direct the Next Superman?
Ever since he rebooted the Superman franchise with Superman Returns, people have wondered if Bryan Singer would be directing the sequel, tentatively titled Superman: The Man of Steel. Well, MTV had the chance to talk to the director about his upcoming Tom Cruise-starring Valkyrie, and they asked him about the next Superman.

Singer's answer? Well, let's just say it was maddeningly vague.

"At the moment I can't really talk about that," said Singer. "I wish I could. From my perspective I'm going to take a brief pause. Valkyrie has taken a long time so I'm going to take a pause. A movie like that takes some time to do right. That's all I can say about that."

You gotta love the internet! Pages and pages and pages of no news about superman at all. I think I’ll write and article. It will go something like this:

EXCLUSIVE: SINGER DOESN’T SAY IF HE’S MAKING A NEW SUPERMAN

I didn’t interview Bryan Singer today. I do know however that he was breathing for most of the day, probably had a meal or two and a couple of p1sses. Her certainly didn’t mention to me whether he was, maybe, perhaps, possibly going to direct a new Superman movie that may or may not be made at some point in the near or perhaps far future. Gotta fill those interweb pages though, so here’s some idle speculation for you:

As he’s an American, Bryan probably had pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast. Superman is and adopted American and probably also has pancakes occasionally, so we can read into that that they both had pancakes at some point which is really positive news for those of you waiting for Superman news!

More as it comes in!

Heh. I think I’m so funny!

Stripped!

This week I took 2 days off to take Dr K and the Woolies to see Eddie Izzard's new show in London!

Awesome, it was! I won't write a detailed review of it, because that'll have been done on blogs up and down the interweb by people far more elequent than I. But I will mention that it was awesome!

Woohoo!

Poo!

So DrK and I returned home at about 9pm last night after an unsuccessful shopping trip to find a horrific smell permeating the house. It was one of those smell that was so bad, we just couldn't tell where it was coming from. It was EVERYWHERE!

Eventually, after about half an hour of searching in all the nooks and crannies, we dicovered that the kitten had done a lovely runny poo all over the cabling behind the telly.

Lovely.

The shame of Britain's intolerance of children (or how Barnardos lied to me for money!)

The shame of Britain's intolerance of children

There is an unjustified and disturbing intolerance of children in the UK according to a shocking poll commissioned by Barnardo's.
The poll shows that society casually condemns all children, with more than half the population (54%) thinking that British children are beginning to behave like animals.

Research conducted by YouGov shows that the public holds a negative view of all children, despite the vast majority of children making positive contributions to their communities, attending school, taking part in activities and a significant number volunteering.

The findings show:

just under half (49%) of people agree that children are increasingly a danger to each other and adults
43% agree something has to be done to protect us from children
more than a third (35%) of people agree that nowadays it feels like the streets are infested with children
45% of public agree that people refer to children as feral because they behave this way*
nearly half of people (49%) disagree with the statement that children who get into trouble are often misunderstood and in need of professional help

I saw this on the news this morning. Basically, the guy from Barnado’s says that they have conducted a survey of 2000 people that shows that about half of us think that kids are vermin and feral and dangerous; then went on to say how horrible people were. The guy interviewing him wanted to know if there were any divisive questions in the survey and Barnardo’s guy said ‘No.’

In fact, the survey appears to either have been written by morons, or deliberately worded to elicit ‘negative’ answers, presumably in an effort to create sensational headlines and thereby get more media attention and, presumably more donations from people who feel bad because ‘society’ hates children.

An example – their press release reads:

45% of public agree that people refer to children as feral because they behave this way

In their notes to editors at the bottom, they then state:

45% of people disagreed with the statement 'People refer to children as feral but I don’t think they behave this way.'

That seems pretty divisive to me. No I don’t think that kids are feral. I don’t think they act like that. And most importantly, I’ve never heard anyone refer to kids as ‘feral’. So to answer the question literally and truthfully, I would probably disagree with the statement.

If this is representative of the questions asked in the survey, I’m not only a bit worried about how the respondents interpreted the question but also about how the answers are being interpreted.

I’m worried that Barnardo’s are trying to deceive me and as a result I will not donate to them.

Cat Food

This is what we're feeding our new kitten. I'm thinking of renaming him 'Hannibal'.

Remember, remember the fifth of November...

...gunpowder treason and... the day I woke to discover that the USA had elected it's first black president! Well done that country!

Grim grim grim grim grim

If you've ever taken the time to read my rants about the nasty grimness that keeps occuring in my office, you may recall an incident that I reported a while back in which someone vomited into a plastic cup and then disposed of the mess into the drip dray in the vending area of our coffee vending machine. In front of witnesses, no less. Witnesses that didn't kill him!

Well the vomit king has struck again. Yesterday afternoon a rather unpleasant smell surfaced in the vending area. No-one was sure what it was or even quite where it was coming from. All we knew was that it was grim. So we reported the bad smell.

This morning, the cleaning lady turned up and started to do her usual job of emptying the rubbish and recycling bins in the vending area. And what did she find in the bottom of the plastic bottle recycling bin? Plastic bottles? No. That would just be crazy! It was full of VOMIT!

So the unknown offender (who, incidentally is probably not a regular in our office, but a visitor to the training suite across the hall from us) obviously misinterpreted the use of the various bins in the vending area. I mean most vending areas have a bin for general rubbish, a bin for cans and a bin for vomit, don't they? Doesn't yours?

A very small bit of consolation...

Catfish and I went to see the new Bond movie 'Quantum of Solace' on Friday. It was very cool. Lots of action. Lots of Bond being cool. Good performances from everyone concerned. Excellent action sequences. What more do you need from a Bond movie?

It was pretty much the same stuff as Casino Royale, so you know what you're getting from the beginning - it's more like a continuation of that movie than a whole new movie. All in all, I think I preferred Casino Royale, but not because of any failing in Quantum.

There you go. Go and see it!

Happy Birthday Dr K

Yay. Happy birthday! Hope you got lots of lovely presents!

What am I saying - I bought you lots of lovely presents!

Rochester vs Dexter

Rochester looks like he's finally beginning to realise that Dex is here to stay. He's spent most of the weekend trying to be in a different room to Dex. Every so often, however, he forgets that he's supposed be sulking and joins in the stick chasing or the lap sitting. Of course, it only takes him a minute or two to remember the other cat - usually when he comes into line of sight and goes off to sulk again!

That said, they were witnessed sharing the sofa last night!

A new addition

This is Dexter. Technically he's Dr K's birthday present, but he was ready, and we picked him up today.

Rochester is decidedly unimpressed!

Once I'd coaxed Dexter out from under the study sofa, we carefully introduced them. Rochester was sitting at the bottom of the stairs, blissfully unaware that his life was about to turned upside down! Dexter was at the top!

Now it's probably worth pointing out that while Dexter had just come from a cattery full of his brothers and siters, Rochester hasn't shared a house with another cat since Ellie died a few years ago. this was never gonna go well.

Anyway, Dexter came to the top of the stairs and saw Rochester. Absolutely delighted to see what he considered a friendly face (well, furry, anyway) he bounded gleefully down the stairs to say hello! Rochester, on the other hand, who wasn't expecting to be charged by a kitten, was a little startled and spat in the poor little guy's face!

Heh. the start of a beautuiful friendship!

Expect the blog to be littered with cute pussy pictures for a few weeks!

Sweeteners

About an hour ago, one of my workmates convinced me to hold a sweetner tablet on the tip of my tounge. I can still taste it.

Movie Premiere

I went to my first movie premiere last night.

Yes, that's right. It was MY MOVIE! And a triumph it was as well! We hired the cinema at UWE and invited the cast, crew and all their friends and family. It's quite an experience to see the culmination of 18 months of work up on the big screen - and more importantly, to have people laughing (and groaning) at the right bits!

No-one but Stead, Dr K and myself had seen the finished movie before last night. The feedback we've had has been overwhelmingly positive. There's probably a certain amount of 'politeness' overseeing that feedback (in particular from my own mother, who described it as 'wonderful' whilst rolling her eyes), but I think there was a lot of sincerity there as well!

We had lots of ups and downs making the movie - Stead and I in particular had a few fallings out, but fotunately nothing major! That said, it's been pretty intense and I'd imagaine we'll be avoiding each other for a few weeks now! I myself am looking forward to vegging on the sofa, watching telly and playing with my PS3. it'll be nice to have weekends again!

How to use a urinal...

There seems to be a really fundamental lack of understanding both in my office and in the world of public toilets, in how to use a urinal. As I'm fed up of finding the Gents swimming in piss, I have prepared a simple guide which I propose should be stuck to the wall at head height above each and every urinal:

HOW TO USE THIS URINAL

1. Stand directly in front of and facing the urinal.

2. Direct your stream into the centre of the urinal.

You are equipped with a tool that points forward by default.

There is no need to direct your stream onto the floor to the left or to the right of the urinal.

There is no need to direct your stream onto the floor in front of the urinal.

If you are unable to follow these simple instructions, then for god's sake, go into a cubicle and SIT THE HELL DOWN! What are you? A toddler?

So last night I sold a bunch of stuff on ebay and one of the buyers appears to be an alien (or possibly a LOLcat. He sent me a message at about 11pm last night which read:

"hai i have paid the money u post da phone 2morrow asap im going on holliday
this week so plz send asap and can u leave feedback and reply with track no
thanks gujjar"

And then this morning at 9am:

"can u replay please"

Bit pushy, I think! Now, normally I get stuff in the post the very next day and then send the buyer an e-mail confirming it's on it's way so they get it as soon as possible and know it's status... but is it wrong that in this case I really, really want to just leave it a day or two (I gave myself a couple of days leeway in the listing).

Also I want to give him an English lesson. Maybe I should reply to him in a similarly unintelligible fashion:

"hai G ai pit da fone in postal adaytay yao get in too dais ur sumfin ai leaf
feedblack den"

Do you think he'd notice that I was taking the p*ss?

UPDATE: I sent it today after all. And left a relatively sensible message for him... I'm such a coward...

Doctor Who Season Finale!!!

Wow. How awesome was that!?!?

After a fantastic buildup last week with DALEKS and disappearing planets and DALEKS and everone who's ever been in Doctor Who and DALEKS and Bernard Cribbins and DALEKS and invasion fleets and DALEKS and the Doctor getting shot and maybe regenerating and DALEKS!!! And did I mention DALEKS? Loads of 'em!

And then this week we get DALEKS and DAVROS and DALEKS and TWO DOCTORS and DALEKS... and you get the idea. Awesome stuff! Yay!

Dazza & Kazza's Grand Antipodean Adventure

I'm off on my holidays with the mighty Dr K. Follow our progress over here:

http://ozdk.blogspot.com/